Wretched Quotes

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.

In falling markets, there is nothing that has not happened before. The bear or pessimist sees only the past, which imprisons the wretched financial soul in eternal circles of boom and bust and boom again.

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.

These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have.

Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.

I hate this wretched willow soul of mine, patiently enduring, plaited or twisted by other hands.